.PerfumeGenius talks camp, American masculinity, and Marlon Brando’s tank tops.
“Can disruption be beautiful?” asks Ocean Vuong, the award-winning poet, author and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, in his introduction to Perfume Genius’s new album,Vuong goes on to describe a body that represents the record, one that “sings itself into the future,” a body that is “queer, healing, troubled, wounded, possible, and gorgeous.”
, Hadreas is perhaps underestimating his own skills as a lyricist, and his ability to capture those moments just as effectively. For those who have followed the rise of Perfume Genius over the past decade, it‘s been a journey of increasing returns. His first two albums, 2010’sconsisted of intimate, confessional bedroom pop where, despite the starkly literal lyrics, Hadreas himself remained mostly behind the scenes.
Hadreas’s evolving sartorial interests have proved to be equally agenda-setting in their own, quiet way. Pop music may have a rich history of gender-bending fashion, but the approach Hadreas has taken when experimenting with style from record to record has been more nuanced—a lick of red lipstick here, a glittering silver mesh tank top there.
It feels ironic that an album so steeped in human contact should be released at a time when nobody will be experiencing it played as a live set, or catching it performed on a late-night show, but on this, Hadreas is unbothered. “So many times I go to shows and I'm like, this is enjoyable, but I wish I like just listening to the song at home—although I guess that's like a really shitty thing to say as a musician,” he adds, giggling again.
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